Timeline for legislation
Category: Other
Updated: 26 Sep 2018
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Created byJosh B
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The Fourteenth Constitution:
- Gave all free blacks their US citizenship
- Gave all free blacks equal protection under the lawThe Fifteenth Amendment
- Forbade the denial of the vote to any man on the basis of colour, race or 'previous condition of servitude'Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Asserted that all other races other than Native Americans were full citizens of the US, even if they had previously been slavesEmancipation Proclamation
- Issued by President Lincoln in 1862 and was effective 1863, gave freedom to African AmericansFourteenth Amendment
- ratified in 1868, gave all free blacks their United States citizenship and equal protection under the law.Military Construction Act
- Passed by congress in 1867, dividing the south into military districts.Impeachment of President Johnson
-1868, Johnson wasn't impeached in the end but after the trial he did little to provoke the rest of the government.Special Order #15
-Forty Acres and a Mule, a term first used by General William T. Sherman.
- The idea was to give the minimum amount to live.The Slaughterhouse case
- In a case concerning a meat monopoly,
the Supreme court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment protected one's individual rights,
not your state rights.Black codes
- set up in 1865/6.
- to keep Black and White people separated.
- to keep AAs in an Inferior position.Ku Klux Klan
- formed in 1865, TennesseeCivil Rights Act 1875
- Made clear that equal rights applied to public areas such as places of
entertainment, drinking houses and public transportThe Compromise of 1877
- Rutherford B. Haynes (Republican) vs Samuel J. Tilden.
-Hayes won, though not without withdrawing remaining troops from the south.
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